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The Enigma.
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Clarence John LaughlinAmerican Photographer · 1905–1985
All works by this person →> My gradually evolved conviction [is] that the camera could be used as an instrument to explore the mind of man, the inner world where man lives both by symbols and emotions, and that in achieving this, the camera would have been used in such a way that it became a direct extension of the luminous and supersentient eye of the imagination--a third eye! > > Clarence John Laughlin wrote passionately
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- negative 1941; print December 30, 1953
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
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